Nicknames

I feel like there are three types of people.

Full name people: Those who go by their fullname and always call others by their full names.

Short name people: Those who shorten their own name and everyone around them.

Nickname people: Those who lengthen or completely make up other names that don't really relate to the original name.

Now, I have no idea which type I am. So you know I am super confident in my initial categorizations...

I almost always introduce myself with my full name and I always write it out full on everything, but when people ask me what I want to be called I always say Rebecca or Becca. They ask which I prefer and I say I don't care. And I really don't. Sometimes I notice what they call me and it does seem more personal somehow when they call me Becca. That's what my whole family calls me. That's even what I call myself when I talk to myself. But it still seems wrong somehow to introduce myself as Becca.

Then there is how I address others. I tend to call people by the name they introduce themselves as (I would call myself Rebecca if I met me) and yet all my family I seem to have shortened even when most people call them by their full name.

In the book I wrote and the one I'm writing the main characters both go primarily by their nicknames. For Audrey she is almost insulted when people call her that (her fullname). And I end up giving most of my characters either really short names or nicknames that are one syllable: Oon, Hak, Will, Cor. Because apparently two syllables is just too long for me to write. 

So basically, I am a full name person because I introduce myself with my full name, and I'm a short name person because I shorten my families and characters names.... and I guess I'm even a nickname person because there is a character in my book who renames people random things.

Maybe there are more types of people than just three...